Hello
I wanted to start a thread to see what information is out there on Stingrays. Everyone says do the research and to Read Richard Ross book on Stingrays. I am not a big fan of forum discussions because of misinformation spread on topics. I am an Audi Techician I read on forums so much misinformaition is not even funny. People will tell you what they have done to get something to work. I removed a bolt to get that to fit now because of the bolt removal the part falls out in six months. HAHA.
Such as the misinformation spread with ray keeping. They are difficult stay away hard to keep. If thats the case what about salt water which is above and beyond any freshwater tank. Anyway.
I bought two Reticulated stingrays in NY for 60 each. I got one male and one female. They were wild caught so I knew that they where going to have health issues. I was not worried I wanted Stingrays. They were covered in ick. They had internal parasites external fice lice. The female had her tail rotting off up to barb with the white cotton fungus. To top it off they were not feed and were wasting away. I still was not worried. I expected this from stress shipping and being just born in the wild.
My tank is a 125 gallon reef tank. (going to make a acrylic tank for adult rays) The tank has suger sand from petco. The pump is a 1800 gph pondmaster pump, for a filter I got a jebeo 1500 gallon rated pond filter wiith uv sterilizer. I have the pump in a 55 gallon sump. I also have a wavemaker timer setup with wavemakers to blow debris in the corner. The pondmaser pump has backwash feature for ease of cleaning. My tank is self cleaning. My water chemistry is spot on. I have 2 oscars, 2 needle fish gar, 2 spotted puffers one, jewel fish 2, fire mouths,,1 peacock bass 1 peacock bass 3 crayfish. The tank was setup and running great.
I went to gnc and bought 100% tea tree oil and west indian root oil, I bought the additive free 100% and some potasium permaganate (in form of water clarifer). I added one drop per gallon of oils and Recomended dose for water clarity on the potasium permaginate. I bought some marine salt and added small amount and turned up the heat to 86 degrees. I cured the stingrays in 3 days. The infection was gone and the wound sealed they started to move around the tank more. Ick was gone heat salt and uv all you need for ich.
What was left was to get the rays to start to eat. I tried to hand feed them all day long. I tried for 3 days everything Cut and chopped Fish, shrimp, Ghost shrip, Tubifex worms, Blood Worms, Earth worms, Night crawlers, Bass worms. They still would not eat. Finally I got them to eat what everyone says they will not and that was hand feed Tubifex worms. The left over worms would burry themselves in the sand and the rays love to dig them out. Now that they were hand feed. When ever they see me the stingrays move around to the front of the glass. They see my and and swim over. Since they are familer with my hand and food I was able to just give them what ever I wanted to feed them. Blood worms Fish, shrimp, Glass shrimp, Ghost shrimp, Earthworms. I dont like earthwomrs because of the dirt and the cleaning invovled. I like to feed my rays 3 times a day My rays even eat shrimp pellets for the same reason they see my hand and come swiming over. They make huge holes in the sand looking for the pellets as they break appart. Its been a month an my rays are growing and are at 4inches in disc. Colors are amazing on male Female is a morph and is not as colorfull.
I wanted to start a thread to see what information is out there on Stingrays. Everyone says do the research and to Read Richard Ross book on Stingrays. I am not a big fan of forum discussions because of misinformation spread on topics. I am an Audi Techician I read on forums so much misinformaition is not even funny. People will tell you what they have done to get something to work. I removed a bolt to get that to fit now because of the bolt removal the part falls out in six months. HAHA.
Such as the misinformation spread with ray keeping. They are difficult stay away hard to keep. If thats the case what about salt water which is above and beyond any freshwater tank. Anyway.
I bought two Reticulated stingrays in NY for 60 each. I got one male and one female. They were wild caught so I knew that they where going to have health issues. I was not worried I wanted Stingrays. They were covered in ick. They had internal parasites external fice lice. The female had her tail rotting off up to barb with the white cotton fungus. To top it off they were not feed and were wasting away. I still was not worried. I expected this from stress shipping and being just born in the wild.
My tank is a 125 gallon reef tank. (going to make a acrylic tank for adult rays) The tank has suger sand from petco. The pump is a 1800 gph pondmaster pump, for a filter I got a jebeo 1500 gallon rated pond filter wiith uv sterilizer. I have the pump in a 55 gallon sump. I also have a wavemaker timer setup with wavemakers to blow debris in the corner. The pondmaser pump has backwash feature for ease of cleaning. My tank is self cleaning. My water chemistry is spot on. I have 2 oscars, 2 needle fish gar, 2 spotted puffers one, jewel fish 2, fire mouths,,1 peacock bass 1 peacock bass 3 crayfish. The tank was setup and running great.
I went to gnc and bought 100% tea tree oil and west indian root oil, I bought the additive free 100% and some potasium permaganate (in form of water clarifer). I added one drop per gallon of oils and Recomended dose for water clarity on the potasium permaginate. I bought some marine salt and added small amount and turned up the heat to 86 degrees. I cured the stingrays in 3 days. The infection was gone and the wound sealed they started to move around the tank more. Ick was gone heat salt and uv all you need for ich.
What was left was to get the rays to start to eat. I tried to hand feed them all day long. I tried for 3 days everything Cut and chopped Fish, shrimp, Ghost shrip, Tubifex worms, Blood Worms, Earth worms, Night crawlers, Bass worms. They still would not eat. Finally I got them to eat what everyone says they will not and that was hand feed Tubifex worms. The left over worms would burry themselves in the sand and the rays love to dig them out. Now that they were hand feed. When ever they see me the stingrays move around to the front of the glass. They see my and and swim over. Since they are familer with my hand and food I was able to just give them what ever I wanted to feed them. Blood worms Fish, shrimp, Glass shrimp, Ghost shrimp, Earthworms. I dont like earthwomrs because of the dirt and the cleaning invovled. I like to feed my rays 3 times a day My rays even eat shrimp pellets for the same reason they see my hand and come swiming over. They make huge holes in the sand looking for the pellets as they break appart. Its been a month an my rays are growing and are at 4inches in disc. Colors are amazing on male Female is a morph and is not as colorfull.
